840 TITLES OF LAWS.

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No. 249. An act to refund to Brookville Lodge, number

fifty, I. O. O. F., certain State taxes paid on account of

erroneous assessments...............................................

385

No. 250. An act to direct and empower the County Com-

missioners of St. Mary's county to protect the county

property and county records from the effects of fire by

effecting an insurance on the property and providing fire-

proof safes ............................................................

386

No. 251. An act to repeal sections one, two and four of

chapter thirty-one of the acts of eighteen hundred and

sixty-five, and section one of chapter four hundred and

forty of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,

amending the same, and chapter sixty-seven of the acts

of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, adding an additional

section to the acts of eighteen hundred and .sixty-five

aforesaid, and re-enact the same so as to read as follows...

387

No. 252. An act for the relief of the infant devisee of

Thomas H. Goslin, late of Dorchester county, deceased...

388

No. 253. An act to pay Joseph F. Morgan and others of St.

Mary's county for services rendered in the arrest of vio-

lators of the Fishery Laws of this State.......................

390

No. 234. An act to pay the claim of Martin V. B. Collins...

391

No. 255. An act to amend the charter of the Eastern Shore

Railroad Company as reorganized ..............................

391

No. 256. An act to organize the Peninsula Railroad Com-

pany and authorize it to connect with any railroad at the

Virginia and Delaware State lines, or intermediate points,

in order to secure a continuous line of railroad, and for

other purposes ........................................................

393

No. 258. An act to make a further supplement to an act

entitled "An act to incorporate the Baltimore Equitable

Society for insuring houses from loss by fire," increasing

the powers of the corporation created by said act...........

396

No. 259. An act giving the sanction of the General Assem-

bly of Maryland to the several legacies contained in the

last will and testament of Alexius E. Smith, late of

Frederick county, deceased, viz : To "The Memorial Evan-

gelical Lutheran Church of Washington, in the District

of Columbia," to " The Board of Home Missions of the

General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of